meaning of inferior
1. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc. ; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
2. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
3. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
4. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
5. Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
6. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
7. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
8. A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc. , than another.
9. a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
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